Founder, Common Craft
Greater Seattle Area
Founder, Common Craft
Greater Seattle Area
I founded Common Craft in 2003 to focus on online community consulting. From 2003-2006, we worked with companies like Microsoft, March of Dimes and Geffen Records to define online community strategies.
In early 2007 a new opportunity arose that has since reinvented the company. We created The Common Craft Show - a series of short online videos that make complex subjects like RSS, Wiki and Social Bookmarking easy to understand using a simple paper-and-whiteboard format we call Paperworks.
The videos on the Show attracted companies who are in need of better ways to explain their products and services. As of the summer of 2007, Common Craft is 100% dedicated to serving the market for better explanations, with our custom "Client Production" videos as our core product offering.
We are a full service explanation company. We consult with the client to understand the key messages, audience, etc. Then we create the concept, script and storyboard. Once that is approved, we produce the videos in our home-based studio.
Business Strategy, Social Design for the Web, Web Design, Online Community Management, Storytelling, Storyboarding, Illustration, Blogging, Usability, Marketing, Social Software, Customer Communities, User Generated Content, Online Video, Paperworks, Video Production,
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2003 — Present (5 years)
Online Community Strategy Consulting and Online Video Production.
(Internet industry)
1998 — 2003 (5 years)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1999 — 2003 (4 years)
MHA, Health Administration, August 1998 — May 2000
online communities, social design, disruption, photography, amateur video, travel,